[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

[Kendra Schaber]

I've heard of a man who was perfically normal and no artist. He got in some 
kind of accedent where his brain got damaged. Since then, he became obsesive 
with drawing to the point that as long as his hands are free, he is drawing. 
I don't know where his sudden tallent for drawing came from. I do know that 
once it was unlocked, he has never put a stop of any kind since.
Kendra
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams


> That is ok, you will make things when the time is right for you. Don't 
> worry about that - you will. I always say the Art profession is the only 
> one I ever knew that nobody ever retires from - not even sickness or 
> disabilities deter the artist from making work. DeKooning was painting 
> during his years with Altzheimers;  Frieda Kahlo painted while flat on her 
> back in bed, and with debilitation pain and paralysis, and on and on...we 
> never quit.
>
> Lynda
>
>
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> From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc at verizon.net>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
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>> Linda
>> I whole heartedly agree with you. I was questioning my own designation. I
>> guess that I do consider myself an artist at heart, I am, it's just I 
>> have
>> not produced much!
>>
>> Deidre
>>
>> Linda wrote:
>>
>> There is no such thing as a "former artist." I have in no way lost any of 
>> my
>> artistic creativity - it is just as urgent as it has always been my 
>> entire
>> life. Art is not an occupation that anyone ever retires from, or can quit
>> due to physical challenges.
>> We just continue on, changing as we go, and it is all part of the path we
>> have always been on since before birth. I am absolutely sure that art is
>> inherent, and nothing that can be learned - we can learn techniques, but 
>> the
>> ART spirit is there first, and we never lose it.
>>
>> Lynda
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc at verizon.net>
>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams
>>
>>
>>> Linda
>>> The process you are describing is called "latent learning" I think. As a
>>> former artist of sorts, fiction writing, visual, whatever, the more
>>> something is on your mind, much is percolating beneath the surface. It's
>>> not
>>> unusual to solve problems the way you describe. That doesn't make it any
>>> less interesting or fun however!
>>>
>>> Deidre
>>>
>>> OMG, Joyce, you are a BIG DREAMER - who are you kidding?  I mean, let's
>>> just
>>> expand the idea of what a dream is - you are a wide awake, walking,
>>> living
>>> dreamer.
>>>
>>> I dream constantly - all I have to do is close my eyes, and in moments I
>>> am
>>> off to places and situations. My dreams are always full of DRAMA...never
>>> the
>>> kind of dreams that you want to close your eyes and go back to sleep and
>>> try
>>> to resurrect.
>>>
>>> But, have any of you every been wrestling with a craft or art problem 
>>> you
>>> could not solve? And, then, in a dream, you see yourself doing it and 
>>> you
>>> wake up knowing exactly how to do something you never did before? I sure
>>> have.  I have figured out knitting problems in m sleep, and I even 
>>> learned
>>> math concepts that I had a hard time with, in my dream. (I learned how 
>>> to
>>> do
>>> "slope" in algebra that way, when my conscious mind could not "get it."
>>> I dream for ideas - sometimes I wake up and write down things I am 
>>> seeing
>>> in
>>> my dreams - poems come that way to me at times.
>>>
>>> I think we have such a creative mind, all of us, that dreams are a
>>> continuation of our creative self.
>>>
>>> Lynda
>>>
>>
>>
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